[e2e] Google Web Accelerator ....

[Ritesh Kumar]

    Actually, routing all your web requests through google will give
them a very good dataset for web page popularity. Infact giving a
web-caching service seems to be good service in exchange of that
"private" data.

Ritesh

On 5/5/05, Vikrant Kaulgud <vikrantsk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I had checked this few days back. Prima facie, it seems to offer a
> higher degree of personalization with intelligent caching etc. Another
> question that always pops up in mind is: Google started as a search
> company, why is it diversifying in to seemingly non-core areas like
> email, web acceleration etc. Is Google becoming a monopoly?...
> 
> Rgds
> Vikrant
> 
> 
> On 5/5/05, Amr A. Awadallah <aaa at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Very interested to hear what folks think about this product from Google.
> > As the network becomes faster, and most web servers support compression,
> > is there still value in doing this ? I mean, there is Akamai for
> > embedded objects, etc, but do we need it for the html pages too ?
> >
> > http://webaccelerator.google.com/
> > http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html
> >
> > Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages
> > load faster, including:
> >
> > Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling
> > Google Web Accelerator traffic.
> >
> > Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly
> > accessible.
> >
> > Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since
> > you last viewed it.
> >
> > Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
> >
> > Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
> >
> > Compressing data before sending it to your computer.
> >
> >
> 
> --
> -----------------
> Regards,
> Vikrant
> 


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